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Candid Commerce | The Comfy
Welcome to Candid Commerce, a newsletter where I review customer journey’s of interesting eCommerce brands and brainstorm a (perhaps unconventional) go-to-market strategy for them.
Customer Journey Review:
Signup Forms:
Popups require SMS, forces people to leave the website to grab the code
No data collected
Popup only shows once
Product Pages:
No video to explain why the product was made (from the founder or otherwise)
No FAQs
Improvements:
Collect SMS post-purchase when their number is already on file!
Put the code on the thank you page instead of making people click off the website
Ask 3-4 questions (qualitative data) about why they are signing up
Show a secondary popup that has unique triggers to fire on product pages after about 45 seconds if they X out the home page form
Use an FAQ section to answer common questions or objections directly on the product page instead of making people open several pages to search for info about returns/exchanges/shipping
Go-to-Market Strategy:
What are the products, why do they matter, why should people care:
Oversized hoodie / Wearable blanket
They matter insofar as comfort while lounging around the house
Market Dynamics: What is the market for/the main reasons people buy these products?
Comfort around the house
Staying warm at home without having to layer, wear coats, or bury yourself under a stack of blankets
Mobile comfort
Consumer Behaviors: How do people typically experience these products for the 1st time?
Social media
Seeing friends and family wearing it (word of mouth)
Blogs or videos about seasonal styles
Aligning Market Dynamics & Consumer Behaviors with Market Inroads (AKA, “of the ways people experience new products, which can you list build into?”):
Build a list of people who make content about fashion and seasonal styles and pitch a co-marketing campaign featuring a giveaway to their engaged audience
Content creators who talk about ‘work from home’ essentials